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}}'''Professor Madison''' was an American scientist from [[Reality Z-25 31-H]], skilled both in genetic manipulation and in the construction of robots controlled by brainwaves. An old friend of [[Kelly]], she served as a kind of ally to the “[[Terrific Two]]”, having notably crafted their superhero outfits for them. She had a similar relationship to [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]], having notably built his iconic [[Skycicle]]. | }}'''Professor Madison''' was an American scientist from [[Reality Z-25 31-H]], skilled both in genetic manipulation and in the construction of robots controlled by brainwaves. An old friend of [[Kelly]], she served as a kind of ally to the “[[Terrific Two]]”, having notably crafted their superhero outfits for them. She had a similar relationship to [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]], having notably built his iconic [[Skycicle]]. | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
===Physical appearance=== | ===Physical appearance=== | ||
Professor Madison was a woman with shoulder-length hair, usually wearing a skirt, shirt and labcoat as well as a pair of triangular glasses which most people found ridiculous. She was slightly taller than [[Kelly]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Into Misery (comic story)|Journey Into Misery]]'') | Professor Madison was a woman with shoulder-length hair, usually wearing a skirt, shirt and labcoat as well as a pair of triangular glasses which most people found ridiculous. She was slightly taller than [[Kelly]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Into Misery (comic story)|Journey Into Misery]]'') | ||
===Personality=== | ===Personality=== | ||
Professor Madison was characterised principally by a steadfast cheerfulness bordering on bubbliness. Although a genius inventor, she was the epitome of the absent-minded scientist. She was criticised by her assistant [[Hank Richards|Hank]] for often forgetting he existed, ultimately prompting Hank's turn to evil, and her extreme fondness for her old friend [[Kelly]] came with complete blindness to Kelly's many flaws, with Madison somehow suffering from the unassailable delusion that Kelly was “a warm, caring person”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Into Misery (comic story)|Journey Into Misery]]'') | Professor Madison was characterised principally by a steadfast cheerfulness bordering on bubbliness. Although a genius inventor, she was the epitome of the absent-minded scientist. She was criticised by her assistant [[Hank Richards|Hank]] for often forgetting he existed, ultimately prompting Hank's turn to evil, and her extreme fondness for her old friend [[Kelly]] came with complete blindness to Kelly's many flaws, with Madison somehow suffering from the unassailable delusion that Kelly was “a warm, caring person”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Into Misery (comic story)|Journey Into Misery]]'') | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
=== Early life === | === Early life === | ||
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With [[Jenkins]] eager for him and Kelly to act as superheroes under the umbrella of “the [[Terrific Two]]”, as he'd been hoping, Madison enthusiastically agreed to let them investigate the theft, and created indestructible superhero costumes for the two of them (as Madison's power of bursting into flames, at least, had made her go through outfits at an alarming rate of late). It turned out that the theft had been carried out by a vengeful Hank Richards, jealous of the attention Madison accorded to Rodney, who had highjacked the Rabbit. Kelly ultimately destroyed the Rabbit, despite it showing signs of having developed sentience, after Richards had been put out of commission. Madison refused to dwell on the possibility that this had been anything other than an accident. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine (comic story)|Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine]]'') | With [[Jenkins]] eager for him and Kelly to act as superheroes under the umbrella of “the [[Terrific Two]]”, as he'd been hoping, Madison enthusiastically agreed to let them investigate the theft, and created indestructible superhero costumes for the two of them (as Madison's power of bursting into flames, at least, had made her go through outfits at an alarming rate of late). It turned out that the theft had been carried out by a vengeful Hank Richards, jealous of the attention Madison accorded to Rodney, who had highjacked the Rabbit. Kelly ultimately destroyed the Rabbit, despite it showing signs of having developed sentience, after Richards had been put out of commission. Madison refused to dwell on the possibility that this had been anything other than an accident. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine (comic story)|Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine]]'') | ||
=== Discovering Armstrong === | === Discovering Armstrong === | ||
[[File:Professor Madison's device.png|thumb|right|210px|Madison wearing her [[Professor Madison's device|portal-detecting device]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')]]Professor Madison and [[Rodney Rabbit|Rodney]] later came to stay at [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]]'s home in [[New York City]] in order to help him, “[[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny Everywhere]]” and [[Merv the Griffin]] investigate [[Doctor Brain]]'s recent usage of a transdimensional portal in a scheme to kill the Captain. Madison created a [[Professor Madison's device|helmet-like device]] which could be used to detect and trace the formation of multidimensional portals. After the heroes hurried to the site of one such detected portal, and brought back a [[Armstrong Fatbuckle|benevolent, but disassembled, living skeleton]], Madison helped put him back together, checking against an anatomical chart. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'') | [[File:Professor Madison's device.png|thumb|right|210px|Madison wearing her [[Professor Madison's device|portal-detecting device]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')]]Professor Madison and [[Rodney Rabbit|Rodney]] later came to stay at [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]]'s home in [[New York City]] in order to help him, “[[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny Everywhere]]” and [[Merv the Griffin]] investigate [[Doctor Brain]]'s recent usage of a transdimensional portal in a scheme to kill the Captain. Madison created a [[Professor Madison's device|helmet-like device]] which could be used to detect and trace the formation of multidimensional portals. After the heroes hurried to the site of one such detected portal, and brought back a [[Armstrong Fatbuckle|benevolent, but disassembled, living skeleton]], Madison helped put him back together, checking against an anatomical chart. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'') | ||
=== Testing a teleporter === | === Testing a teleporter === | ||
[[File:Terry and Madison.png|thumb|left|225px|Madison thanks [[Terry Tornado]] for agreeing to help with the testing of her teleporter. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terry Tornado and the Teleporter (comic story)|Terry Tornado and the Teleporter]]'')]]Some time later, Professor Madison invented a set of teleporting booths. Another superhero friend of hers, [[Terry Tornado]], agreed to help test it out. Despite Madison's assurances that there would be no such problem, Terry insisted on stripping out of fear of a “''[[The Fly]]'' scenario”. However, there was a completely different malfunction during the subsequent test, with Terry rematerialising not in the second booth but in the neighbours' refrigerator. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terry Tornado and the Teleporter (comic story)|Terry Tornado and the Teleporter]]'') | [[File:Terry and Madison.png|thumb|left|225px|Madison thanks [[Terry Tornado]] for agreeing to help with the testing of her teleporter. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terry Tornado and the Teleporter (comic story)|Terry Tornado and the Teleporter]]'')]]Some time later, Professor Madison invented a set of teleporting booths. Another superhero friend of hers, [[Terry Tornado]], agreed to help test it out. Despite Madison's assurances that there would be no such problem, Terry insisted on stripping out of fear of a “''[[The Fly]]'' scenario”. However, there was a completely different malfunction during the subsequent test, with Terry rematerialising not in the second booth but in the neighbours' refrigerator. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terry Tornado and the Teleporter (comic story)|Terry Tornado and the Teleporter]]'') | ||
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Once at the Nexus of Realities, Madison was turned invisible by Mysto so that she could follow Jenkins on a discreet mission to find the office of the [[Director of Singularity]]. There, they witnessed the Director's obsession with keeping the Bureau's records in order. They revealed themselves to him and bluffed him into thinking they'd switched the labels on a number of tapes, and would only tell him which ones if he agreed to sign a contract guaranteeing that the Bureau would no longer interfere in [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]. With the day saved, all the heroes returned home. Most then left the Fortress, but not Mysto nor Madison, with the two spending the night together. In the morning, however, Madison was called away by Captain Evening, who needed her help at his current location ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Singularity War (comic story)|Singularity War]]'') to deal with the peculiar situation of [[the Blue Knight]], an Arthurian knight whose mind had remained bound to his armour through the centuries even as his body wasted away, only to end up merging with the body of his descendant, [[Chief Inspector Dennis]], due to the machinations of [[Merlin#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Merlin]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Encore (comic story)|Encore]]'') | Once at the Nexus of Realities, Madison was turned invisible by Mysto so that she could follow Jenkins on a discreet mission to find the office of the [[Director of Singularity]]. There, they witnessed the Director's obsession with keeping the Bureau's records in order. They revealed themselves to him and bluffed him into thinking they'd switched the labels on a number of tapes, and would only tell him which ones if he agreed to sign a contract guaranteeing that the Bureau would no longer interfere in [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]. With the day saved, all the heroes returned home. Most then left the Fortress, but not Mysto nor Madison, with the two spending the night together. In the morning, however, Madison was called away by Captain Evening, who needed her help at his current location ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Singularity War (comic story)|Singularity War]]'') to deal with the peculiar situation of [[the Blue Knight]], an Arthurian knight whose mind had remained bound to his armour through the centuries even as his body wasted away, only to end up merging with the body of his descendant, [[Chief Inspector Dennis]], due to the machinations of [[Merlin#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Merlin]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Encore (comic story)|Encore]]'') | ||
[[File:Professor Madison and the Blue Knight in Meanwhile, On Earth.png|thumb|left|Madison studies [[the Blue Knight]] with [[Rodney Rabbit|Rodney]]'s help. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, On Earth (comic story)|Meanwhile, On Earth]]'')]]With the Odds, Blue Knight included, appearing directly in her and Rodney's bedroom thanks to [[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny]]'s powers, it wasn't long before Madison took the Knight to the Fortress's labs and ran a battery of tests on them. However, she concluded, to the Knight's dismay, that Merlin's spell was a perfect merger, with no means available to her to untangle the Chief Inspector's minds from her male ancestor's, or even to transplant the merged mind in a physically male body as the gestalt Blue Knight (wherein which the medieval, male Knight was dominant) desired. Later in the same day, after the Odds defeated [[Ultimatron]] and uncovered [[Captain Perfect]]'s dirty dealings, she joined in the afterparty at the Fortress to which the Captain invited all his hero friends, socialising with [[the Big Bad Wolf#In Reality Z-25 31-H|the Big Bad Wolf]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, On Earth (comic story)|Meanwhile, On Earth]]'') | |||
=== Fighting the Cosmic Solution === | === Fighting the Cosmic Solution === | ||
[[File:Professor Madison in Journey Out Of Misery.png|thumb| | [[File:Professor Madison in Journey Out Of Misery.png|thumb|right|220px|From her desert hideout, Madison asks for [[Kelly]]'s help to save [[New York City|New York]] from the [[Cosmic Solution]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Out Of Misery (comic story)|Journey Out Of Misery]]'')]]Shortly after the [[Cosmic Solution]] robot arrived in [[New York City]] and began wreaking havoc, Madison received a phone call from a frustrated [[Kelly]] who had found that her powers had stopped working shortly after she destroyed [[Jenkins]] in a burst of anger (although she did not specify that she had killed Jenkins, only saying that he had “gone away”). Madison theorised that they needed to be together for both their powers to work, and, having seen the Solution on TV, urged Kelly to get Jenkins back as soon as possible so that the “[[Terrific Two]]” could help fight the threat. In the meantime, Madison reactivated her [[Robot Madison|robot duplicate]], which she had left in storage in New York, so that she could rally a number of other heroes. | ||
After resurrecting Jenkins with [[Alicia]] and [[Babs]]'s help, Kelly phoned the real Madison again, angrily reporting that her powers still weren't working; Madison speculated that they needed to resync their biologies to reboot their powers, something which she could achieve using a complicated machine at her lab in the Mohave Desert, but, with time short, Kelly hung up and decided to achieve the same results by sleeping with Jenkins instead. Jenkins's resurrection proved instrumental to ending the threat of the Cosmic Solution, though not in the way Madison, or anyone, had expected. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Out Of Misery (comic story)|Journey Out Of Misery]]'') | After resurrecting Jenkins with [[Alicia]] and [[Babs]]'s help, Kelly phoned the real Madison again, angrily reporting that her powers still weren't working; Madison speculated that they needed to resync their biologies to reboot their powers, something which she could achieve using a complicated machine at her lab in the Mohave Desert, but, with time short, Kelly hung up and decided to achieve the same results by sleeping with Jenkins instead. Jenkins's resurrection proved instrumental to ending the threat of the Cosmic Solution, though not in the way Madison, or anyone, had expected. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Out Of Misery (comic story)|Journey Out Of Misery]]'') | ||
